Environmental Groups Petition Mnangagwa to Act as Lake Chivero Crisis Deepens

Civic groups, residents and ratepayers in Harare have sounded the alarm over worsening pollution at Lake Chivero warning that the contamination of the city’s main water source threatens the country’s economic and development ambitions.

In a petition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the stakeholders described Lake Chivero a Ramsar-designated wetland as having reached critical levels of pollution urging immediate government intervention.

“Unchecked pollution at Lake Chivero is undermining our national development priorities and the health of current and future generations,” the petition reads.

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